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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2008
Iraj Saniee, New Providence, NJ (US);
Iraj Saniee, New Providence, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for self-organized caching in a content delivery network. One or more requested content items are cached at a node in a content delivery network. The disclosed method determines if the content item is stored in a local cache; and, if the content item is not stored in a local cache, the following steps are performed: requesting the content item from another node; and storing the content item in the local cache it one or more predefined capacity criteria are satisfied. The content delivery network can be a hierarchical network or a non-hierarchical network. The predefined capacity criteria can evaluate a popularity index of the content item relative to other items stored in the local cache.